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Useful properties and application of gelsemium
Description of gelsemium
Gelsemium poisonous from the Loganiev family is a beautiful evergreen shrub, the height of which often reaches about one meter. This climbing plant with winding thin branches has a cylindrical rhizome with thin long roots and underground horizontal shoots. Opposite lanceolate leaves are dark green and glossy. Dense leathery plates have a solid edge. The fruit is a reddish-brown pod that contains numerous seeds.
Elegant opposite flowers up to 5 cm long are rationally located only in the axils of the upper leaves. They are pale yellow in color and have a pleasant smell. Gelsemium grows well in Central America along the sea and river banks. It is successfully bred in the Caucasus in spacious bright greenhouses. For medicinal purposes, only thickened rhizomes with shoots and roots are harvested and harvested.
Useful properties of gelsemium
Extraordinary gelsemium contains alkaloids and resin. The gelsemin present in it has a special strychnine-like effect. This unique homeopathic plant is considered to be quite a strong poison. The main impact on the human body is directly related to the general paralysis of the nervous system. When taking high doses, complete paralysis of all motor nerves occurs. There is also an exceptional relaxation of the sphincter, which leads to urinary and fecal incontinence. Difficulty breathing is possible, and in some cases, cardiac arrest, leading to death.
The correct dosage of gelsemium can effectively treat various serious eye diseases, including droopy eyelids and strabismus. It is also possible to heal inflammation of the choroid and retina. Preparations based on this plant help with congestive headache, dysmenorrhea, neuralgia and severe uterine colic in the postpartum period. With hysterical convulsions and serious nervous diseases of smokers, a special homeopathic remedy containing gelsemium rhizomes is very effective.
Various remedies are indicated for fever, and also for the catarrhal form of influenza. Many modern doctors recommend special remedies for influenza. They are shown to all people, even those who are characterized by increased sensitivity and irritability. Gelsemium helps to solve problems with speech and thinking. In low dilutions, homeopathic remedies provide invaluable benefits to human health.
Application of gelsemium
To prepare gelsemium tincture, you need to take a fresh root. For various rubbing, a dry medicinal mixture intended for dilution with water or alcohol is also suitable. 10 grams of rhizomes and 100 ml of alcohol are enough to infuse a healing tincture in three weeks. It should be taken after straining 5-20 drops, depending on the recommendations of the specialist and the form of the disease. Gelsemium tincture is prescribed for headaches, neuralgia, severe cough, toothache, shortness of breath, and insomnia.
Along with this, with the help of tincture, you can get rid of alcoholism if you take the remedy for six months. With neurosis, which are caused by dystrophy of an important autonomic nervous system, various infusions based on the presented plant are also shown. Some funds are indispensable for the treatment of polyneuritis and post-infectious paralysis.
Gelsemium contraindications
Since the plant is very poisonous, special attention should be paid to the prescribed dosages.